Trauma Training
Trauma-Informed Eating Disorder Treatment Training
Control, Shame & Survival: A Trauma-Informed Lens to Eating Disorder Treatment
Trainer: Llyndsey Gregory, LCSW
On-Demand: Available with lifetime access for asynchronous learning. | This course was recorded on September 25th, 2025.
Eating disorders are rarely just about food. They are deeply rooted in trauma, attachment wounds, and chronic stress, and they often show up in caseloads that were never labeled as eating disorder work.
This trauma-informed eating disorder training for therapists helps mental health professionals recognize how unresolved trauma drives disordered eating patterns. Learn how to spot hidden signs, break through shame, and create safer, more effective treatment plans. You will gain practical, neuro-informed strategies for outpatient therapy and feel confident supporting clients on their journey to heal both eating disorders and underlying trauma for lasting recovery.
This advanced trauma training CE course is designed for therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals who want to work with greater confidence at the intersection of trauma and disordered eating.
Practical Interventions You’ll Learn
This course goes beyond theory. You will leave with evidence-based, trauma-informed tools you can bring directly into your clinical work, including assessment instruments, modality-specific interventions, and collaborative care strategies.
In this trauma-informed eating disorder training, you'll learn how to:
- Use the SCOFF, EAT-26, and EDE-Q assessments to screen for eating disorders, assess symptom severity, and determine the appropriate level of care
- Apply CBT cognitive restructuring to challenge distorted beliefs driving disordered eating, such as worth being tied to body size or food restriction
- Implement Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help clients consume feared foods without engaging in compensatory behaviors
- Use DBT emotion regulation techniques to address the impulsivity and emotional intensity that fuel eating disorder behaviors
- Apply ACT interventions to reduce shame and avoidance of body-based distress, and help clients separate from intrusive ED thoughts in service of meaningful goals
- Integrate Family-Based Therapy (FBT) strategies, including parent-led refeeding and weight restoration approaches for clients with anorexia
What You'll Learn
Eating disorders are some of the most misunderstood and overlooked presentations in mental health, often hidden behind perfectionism, diet culture, or outdated clinical stereotypes. This training gives you a comprehensive, trauma-focused framework for recognizing, assessing, and treating eating disorders across diverse client presentations.
By the end of this training, you will be able to:
- Evaluate common misconceptions about eating disorders, including who they affect, how they present, and how trauma histories shape their development across the lifespan
- Analyze the intersectionality of trauma and disordered eating, including how early adversity, attachment wounds, dissociation, and chronic stress drive disordered eating patterns
- Describe current DSM-5 eating disorder diagnoses, including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, and OSFED, along with differential diagnoses and co-occurring trauma presentations
- Apply evidence-based screening tools to assess trauma-related risk factors, eating disorder severity, and appropriate level of care
- Identify when and how to collaborate with dietitians, physicians, and treatment teams when higher levels of care, medical stabilization, or coordinated support are needed
- Describe at least three evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions for eating disorder treatment and recovery, drawn from CBT, DBT, ACT, and FBT frameworks
Who is this training for?
This course was designed for trauma therapists who are encountering eating disorder presentations in their caseloads and want a clinically grounded, trauma-informed framework to respond with confidence. No prerequisites are required, and the training is open to a range of helping professionals.
Trauma-Informed Eating Disorder Treatment Training is a strong fit if you are:
- A trauma therapist who has noticed possible ED presentations in clients but hasn't felt equipped to address them directly or communicate about them across treatment teams
- Wanting a training that approaches eating disorders through a trauma lens rather than an ED-specialty-first model, reflecting how most trauma caseloads actually encounter these presentations
- Working with clients whose disordered eating appears linked to shame, body-based distress, or trauma history, and looking for specific, evidence-based interventions you can apply in outpatient work
- Seeking practical training in CBT, DBT, ACT, and FBT as applied to eating disorders, with direct clinical application to individual therapy sessions
- Wanting to know when and how to make referrals, consult with dietitians and physicians, or recommend higher levels of care without losing the therapeutic relationship
- Seeking NBCC or ASWB/ACE continuing education at the intersection of trauma and eating disorders in a flexible on-demand format with 4 CEs
About Your Trainer, Llyndsey Gregory, LCSW
